Commons:Deletion requests/File:1943 forged German military franchise stamp.jpg

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File:1943 forged German military franchise stamp.jpg[edit]

Per Commons:Copyright_rules_by_territory/Germany stamps are not ""official works" and therefore copyrighted until 70 years after the artist's death. In this case the artist, Gerd Aretz, died in 1973. So the image is copyrighted until at least 2,043. Same goes for the following images. Someone might be able to argue that the 3 images of postal covers are de minimis since the stamps aren't the main elements of the image, but it's never been clear to me what their copyright status is. So I'm leaving it up to others to decide. Thanks.


Deleted: per nomination. The artist's name is Erich Meerwald though. For those where no artist is named on the stamp, German copyright expired 70 years after publication ({{PD-Germany-§134-KUG}}), and for those with named artists, it's 70 years pma. One engraver also named died in 1978, so the German copyright for that stamp will expire at the end of 2048. The URAA restored the US copyright of all stamps, so they are all currently protected in the US. The years when we can restore the files are a mix of 70 years pma and 95 + 1 years per URAA, depending on the individual file. --Rosenzweig τ 23:11, 4 February 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]